{"id":15570,"date":"2012-06-22T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2012-06-22T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T19:02:24","slug":"arab-opinion-no-western-intervention-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/arab-opinion-no-western-intervention-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Opinion: No Western Intervention in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/larison\/regional-opinion-on-syria\/\">Via Daniel Larison<\/a>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewglobal.org\/2012\/06\/21\/widespread-condemnation-for-assad-in-neighboring-countries\/\">Pew survey<\/a> finds broad Arab support for Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad to step down and very little support for a Western military intervention:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/arab-opinion-no-western-intervention-in-syria\/syria0002\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15571 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SYRIA0002.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SYRIA0002-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SYRIA0002.png 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0As Larison notes, &#8220;the farther removed from Syria\u2019s immediate vicinity they are, respondents tend to be more supportive of coercive measures,&#8221; for obvious reasons. At the very least this should prevent interventionists from arguing an intervention in Syria could at all be a part of the Arab Spring or fulfilling related aspirations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/r2ps-problem-from-hell\/\">as they claimed in Libya<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Daniel Larison, this Pew survey finds broad Arab support for Syria&#8217;s Bashar al-Assad to step down and very little support for a Western military intervention: \u00a0As Larison notes, &#8220;the farther removed from Syria\u2019s immediate vicinity they are, respondents tend to be more supportive of coercive measures,&#8221; for obvious reasons. At the very least this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15574,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}